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Residual Symmetries Applied to Neutrino Oscillations at NOA and T2K
The results previously obtained from the model-independent application of a
generalized hidden horizontal symmetry to the neutrino mass
matrix are updated using the latest global fits for the neutrino oscillation
parameters. The resulting prediction for the Dirac phase is in
agreement with recent results from T2K. The distribution for the Jarlskog
invariant has become sharper and appears to be approaching a particular
region. The approximate effects of matter on long baseline neutrino experiments
are explored, and it is shown how the weak interactions between the neutrinos
and the particles that make up the Earth can help to determine the mass
hierarchy. A similar strategy is employed to show how NOA and T2K could
determine the octant of . Finally, the exact
effects of matter are obtained numerically in order to make comparisons with
the form of the approximate solutions. From this analysis there emerges some
interesting features of the effective mass eigenvalues.Comment: 9 pages, 1 table, 17 figure
Neutrino Mass Squared Differences in the Exact Solution of a 3-3-1 Gauge Model without Exotic Electric Charges
The mass splittings for the Majorana neutrinos in the exact solution of a
particular 3-3-1 gauge model are computed here in detail. Since both
and the mass splittings ratio
are taken into account, the analytical calculations
seem to predict an inverted mass hierarchy and a mixing matrix with a texture
based on a very close approximation to the bi-maximal mixing. The resulting
formulas for the mass squared differences can naturally accomodate the
available data if the unique free parameter () gets very small values
(). Consequently, the smallness of the parameter requires
(according to our method) a large breaking scale TeV
in the model. Hence, the results concerning the neutrino mass splittings may
lead to a more precise tuning in the exact solution of the 3-3-1 model of
interest, being able - at the same time - to recover all the Standard Model
phenomenology and predict the mass spectrum of the new gauge bosons
in accordance with the actual data. The minimal absolute mass
in the neutrino sector is also obtained - eV - in the case
of our suitable approximation for the bi-maxcimal mixing.Comment: 10 pages, no figure
High energy photon-neutrino elastic scattering
The one-loop helicity amplitudes for the elastic scattering process
in the Standard Model are computed at high center of
mass energies. A general decomposition of the amplitudes is utilized to
investigate the validity of some of the key features of our results. In the
center of mass, where , the cross section grows roughly as
to near the threshold for -boson production, .
Although suppressed at low energies, we find that the elastic cross section
exceeds the cross section for when
GeV. We demonstrate that the scattered photons are circularly polarized and the
net value of the polarization is non-zero. Astrophysical implications of high
energy photon-neutrino scattering are discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX
Photon-neutrino interactions
The cross sections for the processes and effective Lagrangian derived from the Standard model. These cross sections are shown to be much larger than the elastic cross section $\sigma(\gamma\nu implications are discussed
The exact eigenstates of the neutrino mass matrix without CP-phase violation
In this paper we obtain the exact mass-eigenstates of the Majorana physical
neutrinos. We start by taking into account a general mass matrix
without any CP-phase violation. It is then diagonalized by exactly solving an
appropriate set of equations. The solution supplies straightforwardly the mass
eigenvalues depending on the diagonal entries and mixing angles. Finally, the
consequences of these analytical expressions are discussed assuming various
phenomenological restrictions such as conserving the global lepton number
and the interchange symmetry. The minimal
absolute mass in the neutrino sector is also obtained since the two plausible
scenarios invoked above are employed.Comment: 9 pages, no figure
Dips in Partial Wave Amplitudes from Final State Interactions
We consider the dip-peak structures in the J=0 partial wave amplitudes for
processes \gamma\gamma\rightarrow W^+W^-~
\mbox{and}~\gamma\gamma,gg\rightarrow t\overline{t} taking into account the
corresponding Born term process and the rescattering process where the
intermediate state is rescattered through the exchange of Higgs resonance state
in the direct channel.Comment: 9 pages, CPP-93-21, 6 figures not include
gamma nu -> gamma gamma nu and crossed processes at energies below m_W
The cross sections for the processes ,
and are
calculated for a range of center of mass energies from below to
considerably above , but much less than . This enables us to treat
the neutrino--electron coupling as a four--Fermi interaction and results in
amplitudes which are electron box diagrams with three real photons and one
virtual photon at their vertices. These calculations extend our previous
low--energy effective interaction results to higher energies and enable us to
determine where the effective theory is reliable.Comment: 12 pages, RevTex, 10 postscript figures include
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